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Quotes from Space and Time — Hermann Minkowski

1864–1909 Germany

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The word postulate of relativity... appears to me very stale... I should rather like to give this statement the name Postulate of the absolute world (or briefly, world-postulate).

Space and Time (1909)

The whole world appears resolved into such world-lines. And I should like to say beforehand that, according to my opinion, it would be possible for the physical laws to find their fullest expression as correlations of these world-lines.

Space and Time (1909)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hermann Minkowski (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.